Simply because they can set the default search to be bing... which will allow them to potentially reap the advertising revenue and search data for other web related projects.

They look at google and get giddy at all that money they could be tapping into.

That and they love the screams web developers make in frustration when dealing with their legacy.

I'd say it wasn't the activation so much that drove people to pirate the software... perhaps it was the fact that it cost money?

Either way I'd think those people would have pirated the software and they'd still be part of a botnet if it had activation or not.

I can vouch for the climbing tendency of spiders. It's kind of like some insects will run at you and attempt to hide beneath your feet. Looking for shelter, spiders I'd assume would be afraid of things like birds... a tiled floor must feel pretty exposed to the elements for them.

I've had a huntsman or two attempt to climb me too :)

The scary thing about huntsman (for people afraid of spiders) that I have found is the further I go north in Australia the bigger they seem to get and the faster they seem to move. Not sure if this is fact or just bad luck on my behalf :)

QLD huntsman seem ungodly fast and large... I just wish they'd stay outside!

Quite a while back I put my foot in a boot whilst wearing no socks only to discover that a large huntsman was under my toes... my instinctive reaction at that moment was to curl my toes up and stomp down.

Spidery crunch. Ugh.

Scared of being bitten and halfway committed ... I pushed down for quite a while to ensure the poor little guy was dead :\

Good times... good times.

According to my Steam store window, Far Cry 2 is $49.99. Maybe you should try lying about things that aren't so easily proven to be false?

At the time of this post: 49.99 USD = 82.6223 AUD

Perhaps he's not american?